Privacy

A post by an unknown threat actor on the Breached hacking forum is allegedly offering a data set composed of 200 million compromised Twitter accounts for around $2, BleepingComputer reports.

A recently released study that analyzed the top 100 breaches from July 2021 to July 2022 showed that hackers are going after personally identifiable information 42.7% of the time.

OCR announced its third enforcement action in the last month, which settles a possible violation of the HIPAA right of access rule by Life Hope Labs.

Google has agreed to settle for $29.5 million two lawsuits involving "deceptive" location tracking, reports The Hacker News.

U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr said that the total TikTok ban in India was an "incredibly important precedent" that should be used by the U.S. and other countries amid concerns over the Chinese video sharing app's potential threat to national security, The Economic Times reports.

Meta has agreed to settle for $725 million in a class-action lawsuit relating to alleged improper data sharing with analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which may have compromised data from up to 87 million Facebook users.

France’s privacy watchdog fined Microsoft €60 million ($64 million) for not offering clear enough instruction for users to reject cookies used for online ads, as part of the move to enforce Europe’s tightening data protection law.

Data breach hits sports betting firm BetMGM New Jersey-based sports betting operator BetMGM has been impacted by a data breach that resulted in the theft of its customers' personal information, BleepingComputer reports.